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Stockholm – our capital city with millions of dreams, expectations, and ambitions. We work for everyone living here today and in the future. Now we are looking for you who want to think big, new, and differently with us – for the people of Stockholm.

Stockholm is flourishing as the country's leading growth region. We work for a labor market where everyone can find their place – where employers find the right skills and where people get a chance to enter or return to the labor market. We support the journey of Stockholmers towards work or studies through labor market initiatives and adult education.

This is Jobbtorg Stockholm

Jobbtorg Stockholm is a department within the labor market administration of the City of Stockholm that works with labor market initiatives.

We provide support to young people and adults who are outside the labor market – through conversations, coaching, collaboration, and educational pathways. We have about 500 employees working at 24 units across the city.

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Welcome to the unit Focus Future Adults – a part of Jobbtorg Stockholm

Focus Future Adults is a unit within Jobbtorg Stockholm. The unit includes Krami, which is a collaboration between the City of Stockholm, the Prison and Probation Service, and the Public Employment Service, as well as a Joint Authority Team (MGT) where collaboration takes place between the Public Employment Service, the Social Insurance Agency, the healthcare of Region Stockholm, and the City of Stockholm's Jobbtorg and social services.

Within the unit, there is also a team of five job coaches, together with two study and career counselors, working with job-seeking homeless Stockholmers who are moving towards work or studies and self-sufficiency. This position specifically involves working with homeless individuals. Within the unit, we have a close collaboration with each other, share knowledge, and support each other in everyday life.

I, the recruiting manager, am Ulla Johansson. It is important to me to have employees who take responsibility, are involved in developing the unit's work, and enjoy and have fun at work. In our unit, you will receive present and trusting leadership with a clear focus so that the Stockholmers we meet receive the support and assistance they are entitled to. The unit's competent employees have a forward-looking focus, and we combine seriousness with warmth and laughter.

Our mission

This position involves working with homeless and job-seeking individuals aged 20 - 66 years. These individuals have different backgrounds, experiences, and circumstances, are outside the labor market, and often need parallel interventions together with various care units or other actors. We work with the method Supported Employment (SE) where we support participants to develop and find, obtain, and retain a job or studies. Change and development work is a natural part of the workday and requires you to be actively involved in this.

Where we are

The operations are primarily based in the office in Hammarby Sjöstad, but we meet participants throughout the city in our premises, at employers, or other partners.

A day with us

A day might start with a coaching conversation with a participant, followed by a conversation or meeting with a social worker or probation officer. Then you might have a meeting with an employer interested in receiving and mentoring a person for an internship. At the end of the day, you document what has happened in our operational system VERA.

We offer

• A secure employment within the City of Stockholm
• Wellness allowance of 3,000 SEK/year
• Collegial learning and good development opportunities
• Opportunity to exchange vacation

Your role

As a job coach, you will work with individuals experiencing homelessness and who need support to approach work or studies and self-sufficiency. Your mission is to see the individual's strengths, create structure in a often complex life situation, and together find paths forward. You work both practically and strategically, from motivating and coaching to coordinating initiatives with other actors. The work involves actively seeking out employers, collaborating with colleagues within the organization, with the Homelessness Area, and other external actors such as the Probation Service, the Social Insurance Agency, the Public Employment Service, and Region Stockholm. You meet participants and employers out in the field and travel daily within Stockholm.

You work according to the methods Motivational Interviewing (MI) and Supported Employment (SE) which center on the individual's needs and resources and include:

• Mapping, goal setting, and guidance together with the aspirant.
• Support in finding, obtaining, and retaining work or studies.
• Active matching with employers - you build networks and engage in dialogue with companies and have an established network with employers who can offer jobs for the individuals we work with.
• Collaboration with social services, internal and external actors.
• Documentation in the operational system according to guidelines.
• You work both independently and in close collaboration with colleagues.

Your competence and experience

• Academic education with a focus on behavioral science, social studies, sociology, or equivalent experience.
• Good knowledge of the Swedish language both written and spoken.

Employees at Jobbtorg Stockholm

• Work towards goals and change direction when conditions change
• See the whole picture and take into account the larger perspective
• Share knowledge and collaborate with colleagues
• Experience working with homeless individuals and with people who are far from the labor market.
• Experience collaborating with various authorities and organizations.
• Experience working with employer contacts.
• Good knowledge of the Office suite, Outlook, and working and documenting within digital operational systems (e.g., CRM)
• Training in Supported Employment (SE).
• Training in Motivational Interviewing (MI).
• Knowledge of Individual Placement and Support (IPS).

For this position, we place particular emphasis on the following competencies:

• Goal- and result-oriented
• Ability to collaborate
• Holistic view
• Professional
• Self-driven

The City of Stockholm works with competency-based recruitment aimed at recognizing each person's competencies and thereby counteracting discrimination.

In the labor market administration, we work to make it easy to develop by changing units and workplaces. This means that your employment is within the entire administration and that you may receive new assignments within other operations where your skills are needed most.